Patents by Inventor Yuji Nishikawa
Yuji Nishikawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11969107Abstract: Nursery equipment includes: a body (car seat body); an extended portion (ISOFIX) extended from the car seat body; and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position or shape of the ISOFIX. The adjustment mechanism includes a string having one end connected to the car seat body and the other end held by the ISOFIX, a reel that is rotatable in both forward and reverse directions and that changes the position or shape of the ISOFIX by winding up and feeding out the string, and a rotation lock mechanism that prohibits rotation of the reel.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Yuji Shibata, Tadashi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11479209Abstract: An input information management system for a vehicle that can be used by using each of a plurality of electronic keys, the system managing input information that is input by a user, where the system includes a key information acquisition unit that acquires and stores key information of an electronic key, when an operation is performed on the vehicle using the electronic key, and an input information erasure unit that erases the input information that is stored in a storage device, where, when the key information is acquired by the key information acquisition unit, the input information erasure unit compares current key information that is acquired with last key information that is last stored by the key information acquisition unit before acquisition of the current key information, and erases the input information that is stored in the storage device on a basis of a result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Yuji Nishikawa, Takuya Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11393262Abstract: In order to quickly respond to a question for vehicle information from a vehicle user at a remote location and offer the user a sense of relief, a vehicle management system of the present invention comprises a telematics communication unit which is mounted on a vehicle and acquires vehicle information and, a vehicle information server which receives from the telematics communication unit the vehicle information and a time at which the vehicle information is acquired, stores the received vehicle information and time, and transmits the stored vehicle information and time to a speech processing system as a response to a question when receiving the question about the vehicle information from the speech processing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11138815Abstract: A vehicle management system includes: a vehicle including a control unit and a communication control unit; and a communication terminal configured to communicate with the vehicle. The communication terminal includes: an arithmetic processing unit configured to output an activation signal for activating the control unit when the communication terminal is turned on or when an application stored in the communication terminal is started; a communication unit configured to transmit the activation signal output by the arithmetic processing unit to the communication control unit; and a notification unit configured to notify a vehicle information output from the control unit activated in response to the activation signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11133643Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member temType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Yuji Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Tadashi Kurosawa, Atsushi Mori, Toshiyasu Shiomi, Michinori Maeda, Akihiko Nishio
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Patent number: 11021112Abstract: A display control device is provided, which includes an image storing section for storing a plurality of captured images in association with image capturing locations on a road, and a display control section for causing a captured image to be successively displayed, the captured image corresponding to each of a plurality of positions that are identified based on a user operation, where the display control section causes the captured image and an object related to an image capturing location of the captured image to be displayed such that the object is arranged on a position of a display screen corresponding to the image capturing location.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nishikawa, Mutsumi Katayama, Naohide Aizawa
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Patent number: 10997853Abstract: A control device is provided, which includes vehicle information collecting section configured to collect vehicle information that is sent by a vehicle and that includes location information indicating a location of the vehicle, a travelling situation determining section configured to determine a travelling situation of each of a plurality of vehicles including the vehicle based on a plurality of pieces of vehicle information including the vehicle information, and a captured-image receiving section configured to receive, from a vehicle in the travelling situation that satisfies a predetermined condition, a captured image captured by the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mutsumi Katayama, Naohide Aizawa, Yuji Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20200307516Abstract: An input information management system for a vehicle that can be used by using each of a plurality of electronic keys, the system managing input information that is input by a user, where the system includes a key information acquisition unit that acquires and stores key information of an electronic key, when an operation is performed on the vehicle using the electronic key, and an input information erasure unit that erases the input information that is stored in a storage device, where, when the key information is acquired by the key information acquisition unit, the input information erasure unit compares current key information that is acquired with last key information that is last stored by the key information acquisition unit before acquisition of the current key information, and erases the input information that is stored in the storage device on a basis of a result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Yuji Nishikawa, Takuya Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20200312051Abstract: A vehicle management system includes: a vehicle including a control unit and a communication control unit; and a communication terminal configured to communicate with the vehicle. The communication terminal includes: an arithmetic processing unit configured to output an activation signal for activating the control unit when the communication terminal is turned on or when an application stored in the communication terminal is started; a communication unit configured to transmit the activation signal output by the arithmetic processing unit to the communication control unit; and a notification unit configured to notify a vehicle information output from the control unit activated in response to the activation signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventor: Yuji Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10785454Abstract: A display control device is provided, including: a location-information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information indicating an image-capturing target place; a route-information acquiring unit configured to acquire route information indicating a route to a destination of a first vehicle; an image-capturing-direction determining unit configured to determine, based on the location information and the route information, an image-capturing direction in which image capturing of the image-capturing target place is to be performed; a captured-image receiving unit configured to receive, from a second vehicle that captures an image of the image-capturing target place in the image-capturing direction, the captured image of the image-capturing target place; and a display control unit configured to cause the captured image to be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mutsumi Katayama, Yuji Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20200051427Abstract: A control device is provided, which includes vehicle information collecting section configured to collect vehicle information that is sent by a vehicle and that includes location information indicating a location of the vehicle, a travelling situation determining section configured to determine a travelling situation of each of a plurality of vehicles including the vehicle based on a plurality of pieces of vehicle information including the vehicle information, and a captured-image receiving section configured to receive, from a vehicle in the travelling situation that satisfies a predetermined condition, a captured image captured by the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Mutsumi KATAYAMA, Naohide AIZAWA, Yuji NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20200031290Abstract: A display control device is provided, which includes an image storing section for storing a plurality of captured images in association with image capturing locations on a road, and a display control section for causing a captured image to be successively displayed, the captured image corresponding to each of a plurality of positions that are identified based on a user operation, where the display control section causes the captured image and an object related to an image capturing location of the captured image to be displayed such that the object is arranged on a position of a display screen corresponding to the image capturing location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Yuji NISHIKAWA, Mutsumi KATAYAMA, Naohide AIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200034098Abstract: A control device is provided, the control device including: a target geographical point indication acquiring unit that acquires an indication of an image-capturing target geographical point; a candidate display control unit that causes an image-capturing direction candidate to be displayed, the image-capturing direction candidate being a candidate of a direction in which an image of the image-capturing target geographical point is to be captured; a selection indication receiving unit that receives an indication of selection of an image-capturing direction candidate; and a captured-image receiving unit that receives, from a device, a captured image capturing an image of the image-capturing target geographical point, the device being a device that has captured the image of the image-capturing target geographical point in a direction of the image-capturing direction candidate indicated by the indication of selection received by the selection indication receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Mutsumi KATAYAMA, Naohide AIZAWA, Yuji NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20200027283Abstract: In order to quickly respond to a question for vehicle information from a vehicle user at a remote location and offer the user a sense of relief, a vehicle management system of the present invention comprises a telematics communication unit which is mounted on a vehicle and acquires vehicle information and, a vehicle information server which receives from the telematics communication unit the vehicle information and a time at which the vehicle information is acquired, stores the received vehicle information and time, and transmits the stored vehicle information and time to a speech processing system as a response to a question when receiving the question about the vehicle information from the speech processing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventor: Yuji NISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10505342Abstract: There is provided a laser device that is able to reduce management tasks by employing microbubble-containing water in which cooling water contains microbubbles. A semiconductor laser device includes a laser oscillation device that includes the one or more laser cavities and a housing that houses the one or more laser cavities; a cooling unit that is arranged outside the laser oscillation device, and can cool circulated cooling water that is used to cool the laser oscillation device; and a cooling water circulation passage that links the laser oscillation device and the cooling unit to allow the circulated cooling water to circulate therethrough, the circulated cooling water being microbubble-containing water that contains microbubbles having a peak diameter of 100 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuhisa Takazane, Yuji Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20190364248Abstract: A display control device is provided, including: a location-information acquiring unit configured to acquire location information indicating an image-capturing target place; a route-information acquiring unit configured to acquire route information indicating a route to a destination of a first vehicle; an image-capturing-direction determining unit configured to determine, based on the location information and the route information, an image-capturing direction in which image capturing of the image-capturing target place is to be performed; a captured-image receiving unit configured to receive, from a second vehicle that captures an image of the image-capturing target place in the image-capturing direction, the captured image of the image-capturing target place; and a display control unit configured to cause the captured image to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Mutsumi KATAYAMA, Yuji NISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10461488Abstract: A laser device provided with the function of predicting occurrence of condensation and preventing occurrence of condensation in advance. The laser device is provided with a controlling part calculating a reference temperature for judging whether a cooling water feed device may feed cooling water based on a temperature measured by a thermometer and a humidity measured by a hygrometer, and a comparing part comparing a reference temperature and a cooling water temperature. The cooling water feed device is configured to stop the feed of cooling water after a command for starting up the laser oscillator has been output and the cooling water temperature is lower than the reference temperature and to start or continue the feed of cooling water when the cooling water temperature is the reference temperature or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko Nishio, Yuji Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hisatada Machida
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Patent number: 10302194Abstract: A shift change practice device capable of improving the effect of learning a shift change operation is provided. The shift change practice device includes: an optimum speed calculation unit that calculates an optimum value or an optimum range of an engine revolution speed in the event of a shift change; a revolution speed comparison unit that determines whether or not a detected revolution speed that is a detected value of the engine revolution speed is equal to the optimum value or whether or not the detected revolution speed is included in the optimum range, in a state where a clutch is disconnected; and a notification instruction unit that instructs a notification device to give a predetermined notification to a driver when the detected revolution speed is equal to the optimum value or the detected revolution speed is included in the optimum range, in the state where the clutch is disconnected.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nishikawa, Akira Nakamura, Yoshiaki Nedachi
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Publication number: 20190109433Abstract: A laser apparatus includes: a cooling capacity control means which controls the cooling capacity of a heat receiving/cooling unit; a surrounding member which surrounds a dew condensation prevention target unit including a heat generating unit and which reaches a surrounding member equilibrium temperature higher than the maximum dew point temperature within a housing as the temperature of the heat generating unit is increased; and a temperature detection means which detects the temperature of the surrounding member, a control unit compares, while a current output command is being output to a laser power supply unit, a surrounding member temperature with a switching temperature previously set lower than the surrounding member equilibrium temperature and when the surrounding member temperature is lower than the switching temperature, the control unit controls the cooling capacity control means such that the cooling capacity of the heat receiving/cooling unit is a low level whereas when the surrounding member temType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi TAKIGAWA, Yuji NISHIKAWA, Hiroyuki YOSHIDA, Tadashi KUROSAWA, Atsushi MORI, Toshiyasu SHIOMI, Michinori MAEDA, Akihiko NISHIO
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Publication number: 20180287337Abstract: There is provided a laser device that is able to reduce management tasks by employing microbubble-containing water in which cooling water contains microbubbles. A semiconductor laser device includes a laser oscillation device that includes the one or more laser cavities and a housing that houses the one or more laser cavities; a cooling unit that is arranged outside the laser oscillation device, and can cool circulated cooling water that is used to cool the laser oscillation device; and a cooling water circulation passage that links the laser oscillation device and the cooling unit to allow the circulated cooling water to circulate therethrough, the circulated cooling water being microbubble-containing water that contains microbubbles having a peak diameter of 100 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuhisa TAKAZANE, Yuji NISHIKAWA